About
One person. Built like a studio.
ThatDevPro is the studio of Joseph W. Anady. Veteran owned, SDVOSB certified, founded in 2020. Based in Cassville, Missouri, with active client work across the United States and federal contract eligibility through SAM.gov.
Principal
Joseph W. Anady
Founder and Principal Engineer
- Education
- BA Computer Engineering
MA Cybersecurity - Certifications
- SDVOSB Verified Owner
SAM.gov Registered - Entity hub
- feedthejoe.com/joseph
- Location
- Cassville, MO
The studio philosophy
Most agencies sell the same template under three brand names. ThatDevPro sells one thing well. Every site we ship runs on a Content First architecture. The substrate carries the content, the schema, the internal links, the entity declarations. The visual layer projects on top. Both ship in the same HTML response. AI crawlers read the substrate. Humans see the projection.
That discipline is what separates us from typical React shops. A standard React SPA delivers an empty div to GPTBot. Our React sites deliver fully rendered HTML on the first byte and hydrate React only for interaction. The result is sites that win citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity alongside their Google rankings.
Background
Joseph holds a BA in Computer Engineering and an MA in Cybersecurity. The engineering background informs how we build infrastructure. The cybersecurity background informs how we harden it. Every site we ship runs on owned infrastructure, with security headers, HSTS, CSP, and rate limiting in place from day one.
He is the founder of MEGAMIND, a federated AI research system running on Apple Silicon nodes, and the principal of the brand network: ThatDeveloperGuy, ThatAIGuy, ThatWebHostingGuy, and ThatDevPro. The public entity hub lives at feedthejoe.com/joseph/.
Why SDVOSB matters
Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business is a certification through the Small Business Administration. It signals two things. First, the business is majority owned and operated by a disabled veteran. Second, the business has cleared the SBA verification process and is eligible for federal set aside contracts.
For private clients, the certification represents accountability. The business is registered, verified, and on record. For federal contracts and prime contractors needing a compliant subcontractor, the SDVOSB status meets the small business set aside requirement directly.
Infrastructure
Every site runs on Bubbles, our self hosted Debian and Nginx server. No third party CDN sitting in front. No shared hosting. Wildcard SSL via Certbot. BIND9 DNS. FastAPI sidecar for schema injection and dynamic data. Daily backups. Tailscale private network for administration.
The decision to own the infrastructure stack is deliberate. It means fewer points of failure, fewer monthly subscriptions baked into client pricing, and complete control over caching, headers, and crawler observability. When something needs to change at 2 AM on a Tuesday, we change it.